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innominate term

phrase

C2CEFR level
95/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A term that is neither clearly a condition nor a warranty, where the remedy depends on how serious the consequences of the breach are.

Treating the seaworthiness clause as an innominate term, the court asked whether the breach deprived the charterer of substantially the whole benefit.

Topic: Contracts in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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